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Three of the most famous Korean chaebols that hold global sway across consumer electronics are Daewoo, LG and Samsung. A chaebol is a Korean term for clan-owned business that has become successful, especially as multinational companies. The term ‘chaebol’ (also spelled ‘chaebeol’) is derived from the words ‘chae’, which means wealth/property, and ‘bol’, which means clan.

The United Nations will finally wind up its peacekeeping services in East Timor in 2012, and all preparations to keep within this deadline are in full swing. It was almost six years ago that the East Timor government enlisted the United Nations peacekeeping efforts in 2006, following unprecedented civil riots and factional fighting that was taking one of the youngest nations in the world to the brink of internal strife and civil war.

The Philippines and its neighbours continue to be hassled by Chinese intrusions into their territorial waters around the Spratly Islands. After an incident in March of this year when a Philippine survey ship was disturbed by Chinese patrol vessels along the Reed Bank, despite the vessel being well within its territorial waters, the Manila government filed a complaint seeking clarification from the Chinese government.

Today’s China is a symbol of growth. Spread across the country, hundreds and thousands of industries, most of them located in special purpose export hubs, have been leading China’s march on its way to becoming an economic powerhouse. While the smaller-scale industries are of the homebred variety, those in charge are local collaborators backed by massive multinational companies.

For a long time now, Brazil, Cuba and other South American companies have had Big Brother U.S. fending for them by investing in various sectors of the continent, along with consumption of what they produced.

However, in the post-2008 era, owing to the international economic slowdown, increasing unemployment rates and its own poorly performing economy, the U.S. is today being laid down by its own burdens and it simply does not have the abundant resources to spend on the emerging markets in its southward neighborhood that it once did.

In past decades, as instances of Chinese cultural heritage leaving its shores increased at an alarming rate, so too did the growing concern amongst academicians about this.

The Chinese government saw that it needed to act quickly and effectively to reduce or halt this trend. Hence, after prolonged reviews of existing cultural rules, new stringent guidelines have come into effect. These are applicable to on-site survey and on-site data collection by overseas surveyors. These laws, called Intangible Cultural Heritage, will come into effect from June 1st, 2011.

In the past several years and in the run up to the start of the new academic year, there has been a lot of activity happening at English schools in China. Oxford and most of the leading British universities today have a presence in China, and almost one in twenty children is preparing for the Scholarship Aptitude Test (SAT) exams to enter the hallowed portals of British education in England or back home in Chinese campuses of these schools and colleges.

The consumer market for cigarettes is on the rise and so are the varied options.

Since most countries see nicotine containing cigarettes as being harmful to the smoker, several manufacturers and fly-by-night operators are using traditional Chinese knowledge of making herbal cigarettes that are free of nicotine-containing tobacco.

The clarion call for reducing carbon emissions was given to the industrialized world nearly 21 years ago by the small group of Pacific Islands whose highest peak reaches a mere 5 meters above sea level.

These tiny self-sustaining islands, facing the brunt of global climate change, are shrinking fast because of the increase in global warming and the subsequent rise in the sea level. However, most of the industrialized nations are refusing to face the problem in its entirety and are merely paying lip service to being committed to the environment cause.

3G is Third Generation networking technology that empowers smart devices (generally hand-held devices such as Smart phones and PDAs) to work on internet (online) technology, taking such device communications into real time.

Yes is the resounding answer if one were to follow the work of Chinese scientists in the past few months.

A recent research and development project for greener batteries has led to the use of Montroseite, a mineral discovered half a decade ago in Montrose County, Colorado.

At the Chinese Hefei University of Science and Technology, Anhui, in November 2010 a group of scientists, led by Yi Xie, synthetically prepared Montroseite. This mineral is very similar in structure to the sea urchin yet demonstrates higher electrochemical properties in comparison to nanorod electrodes. The characteristics of the Montroseite make it ideal for anodes in batteries using aqueous lithium ions.

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) made it emerge as a robust economic power.

From US US $44.2 billion in 1997, foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose to US $52.7 billion in 2002; as a result, the share of China’s total FDI into Asia got a sharp rise from 40.6 percent to 55.5 percent.

In just a short period of time, China’s mobile industry has gone from a mere follower-of-trends to the world’s biggest market for mobile phones, owning the largest telecommunications network in terms of capacity, and the highest number of subscribers.

China’s economic growth has been incredible over the past decade. This has led to winds of change in its economic and political relations across the globe. Southeast Asia has been one of the regions in which the influence has been substantial. IThis decade has seen the Chinese take vital steps for mutual gains and economic cooperation, rather than an ideological confrontation or military conflict. This led to strong ties with Vietnam, Malaysia, Burma and Thailand.

Although it would be normal for people anywhere around the world to think that the center of focus for smartphones is in the United States, particularly in Apple Inc.’s California headquarters , they may be surprised to know that Asia is playing the biggest role of all.

China’s growing demand for mass transportation has triggered a highspeed rail system revolution that is set to double the country’s intercity connections. Not only could this system help China further its economic competitiveness, but it will steer the country’s dependence on imported oil to support its public transportation system.

Such is the importance given by the government in increasing the speed of mass transport connecting its cities. Investments for the construction of this rail system will take up a huge chunk of China’s economic stimulus plan.

The charred remnants of burned-down buildings flash across TV screens across the globe as people watched the aftermath of Thailand’s worst political crisis in 18 years. Shops and other business establishments have started to reopen as gridlock once again fills the roads.